Satan Away - Your Self, My Self or Our Selves: Satan away? Or tell Satan: Away!

Satan Away - Your Self, My Self or Our Selves
Satan away? Or tell Satan: Away!
Every day, many times a day, we choose: God or Not God. Love or Not Love. Will I serve myself, or will I submit myself to God?
From the Garden to the cross, the Scriptures show where the self left to its own desires always leads. Adam and Eve, Cain, Achan, Ahab, Judas, Ananias and Sapphira: again and again, the selfish choice ends in loss, for the one who grasps and for those around them. And the Relationship Busters we use on one another every day, judgment, anger, accusation and condemnation, do the Adversary's work for him.
Satan Away is a personal book, meant to be read alone with God himself. It turns the mirror around, from Your Self to My Self to Our Selves, and opens the way to Jesus' attitudes, the fruit of the Spirit and a life truly worth living: becoming more and more like Jesus.

Inside, you will discover:

• Your Self: where the self left to its own desires leads, from "You will be like God" in the Garden to the graves of craving in the wilderness
• Merciful, gracious... and honest: forgiveness is always available, but the consequences of our actions, for the most part, are allowed to play out in our lives (Exodus 34:6-7)
• When desire conceives: how a desire grows into sin, and sin into death (James 1:14-15)
• Doing the accuser's work: what the Hebrew word satan means, and the many little ways we "Satan away" at one another
• My Self: seeing but never perceiving, "Get behind me, Satan!", and why we submit to God first, then resist the devil
• From Relationship Busters to the attitudes Jesus walked around in, often called the Be-Attitudes, and the fruit of the Spirit
• Our Selves: "If I perish, I perish," a people where "no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own," and decisions that "seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us"
• The Adversary and the Advocate: the accuser of our brothers, and Jesus Christ the righteous, our advocate with the Father
• The self God made: known by him before we were born, and created for good works he prepared beforehand
• The four posters, printed in the appendix

Read it alone with God. Each chapter closes with "Alone With God" a passage to sit with, a time of quiet listening ("Father, here I am. Speak. I am listening.") and a prayer.
"Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." (James 4:7)